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Often, you may want to access a website’s internal API or pull an authorization token from a page. This can be done with Simplex’s network handling functions.

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Network Request Overview

If you navigate to a legacy web portal, open the Network tab in Chrome Developer Tools, then reload the page, you might see something like this:

Network requests and responses on a legacy web portal. Click to expand.

The network requests are highlighted in red, and the response (omitted for privacy) is highlighted in green. This is the website’s internal API, and it contains information that can be useful. We’ve seen customers use websites’ internal APIs to pull information that they then

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Network Request Functions

You can find the URL of network requests by clicking on them in the Network tab of Chrome Developer Tools and viewing the Headers panel.

Network request URL in Chrome Developer Tools. Click to expand.

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Using Network Responses

Choose “get_network_response” in the workflow builder, then input a partial URL that matches the network response you’re trying to extract.

Using get_network_response in the workflow builder